The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is talking up its weekend efforts of knocking on 173, 651 doors across Ohio.
The campaign said the number represents the "largest number of doors knocked over two days during the campaign thus far."
The campaign said volunteers "fanned out statewide to talk about the Obama-Biden plan to strengthen Ohio's economy and stand up for America's forgotten working families, in contrast with the McCain-Palin platform to offer four more years of the failed policies of the Bush Administration."
The original goal weekend canvass was to knock on 118,602 doors -- one more door than George Bush's margin of victory in Ohio in 2004.
"These numbers indicate the incredible level of enthusiasm and support Ohioans are showing for Barack Obama and Joe Biden," said Aaron Pickrell, Obama's campaign state director. "The foundation of our efforts in the state is built on neighbors reaching out to neighbors, and it's clear that model is making a difference in the growing support for our campaign."
The campaign said that last week the cumulative volunteer outreach effort for Obama's Ohio Campaign for Change included 535,467 neighbor-to-neighbor calls and door-to-door visits.
Obama is running against Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Knocking on doors will not
Knocking on doors will not translate into votes. The Kerry campaign went around knocking on doors and registering voters and look what happened? Where is Obama and Biden? Looks like more of the same. Out of state campaign workers coming here to tell us how to vote and what to do. Ohioans are not buying it again.
The Obama campaign get's an
The Obama campaign get's an "A" for effort. He HAS campaigned in the State of Ohio (a simple Google search will confirm). Knocking on doors and making face-to-face contct DOES in fact make a difference in election outcomes. Obama has out campaigned McCain from the start and continues to do so. Canvassing efforts coupled with the stark reality of the following WILL give him the victory in Ohio:
You are The Boss at a big international company... which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year.
Let's look at the educational background of your two options:
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
& Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899
& Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
Fishing and Hunting License
Now, which team are you going to 'hire'?
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers -- a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become Chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services Committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the City Council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 6,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. However, if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, then left your disfigured wife and married heiress Cindy the very next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of American society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
If you require rape victims to pay for their own “rape kits,” advocate denying a woman the right to control what goes on with her own body (even in the case of rape and incest), you’re forgiven and conservative.
If you fight for women’s rights, including equal pay for equal work, hold personal “pro- life” views, but honor a woman’s right to choose, co-sponsor legislation to reimburse sexual assault victims for their expenses under the Illinois Crime Victims Compensation Act, you’re liberal and free spending.
If you claim you’re an advocate for children with special needs, yet place the life of your own special needs child in jeopardy and cut the Special Olympics budget in your state by 50% this very fiscal year, you’re able to make business decisions.
If your wife is a Harvard educated lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
If your husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
If you’re a fit 47 year-old you are too young to serve as U.S. President.
If you’re 72 years-old, have been classified as 100% disabled by the federal government, have suffered four bouts of Stage IIA melanoma, which carries an average 10-year survival rate of 66 percent and are only two years away from reaching that critical threshold, you’re ready to serve the country.
OK, much clearer now.
Could this be the ultimate McCain lie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bTvhXMO7I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZkLt81UyI&feature=related
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